One night passed, and the blizzard finally subsided. Although there were still heavy dark clouds hanging overhead, at least Jiang Yan and Lu Qiu Bo Rong, who were not completely buried alive by the snow and ice, as well as their respective soldiers, were able to escape.
The Red Flame Army and Guan Ning's soldiers also stopped fighting with each other. Although they quickly divided into two distinct teams after standing up from the thick snowdrift, the anger that had been tense before had long been extinguished, and everyone seemed to have been beaten by frost.
Like seedlings passing by, they abandoned their armor and followed their soldiers, looking downcast.
After counting the manpower, Jiang Yan arranged for the soldiers to light fires to keep out the cold. At the same time, he ordered people to stop the riders from digging out their dead mounts from the snow, which was as high as a man. It was these horses that understood human nature that saved the life of the people.
Everyone deserves a life. How about letting them sleep forever in this world of ice and snow, no longer disturbed by others.
However, it was obviously impossible for the army with many wounded to move forward immediately. Among the thousands of people, the old injuries they had suffered in the previous confrontation had not been effectively treated, and they were exposed again in the wind of the night.
Countless new injuries were added to the snow. Frostbite was more difficult to heal than ordinary injuries. The fingers and toes of nearly 20% of the soldiers were now as black as coal and without any feeling. Not to mention their faces and bodies were covered in frostbite.
After the brittle skin splits, the wounds left, large and small, bleed endlessly.
But there is always luck in misfortunes. The grassland people do not need a large number of civilians to transport food, grass and baggage like the southerners do. Each of their teams of ten people not only brings their own water, but also is equipped with a light marching tent. That's right.
It is these marching tents that once again saved everyone's lives at this difficult moment.
Jiang Yan cast his gaze towards Luqiu Borong not far away, and found that the embarrassed Emperor Daxin was also looking towards him. The two exchanged a wry smile in embarrassment. Although they did not speak a word, they immediately understood each other.
What I thought in my heart, I nodded in acquiescence.
The camp where the bonfire was raised suddenly became gold on this ice sheet, which was extremely precious. Driven by the survival instinct, Guan Ning's soldiers and the Red Flame Army also put aside many conflicts that could not be reconciled between them.
They all squeezed into the tent closest to them, not caring whether the people around them were compatriots or foreigners.
Jiang Yan and Lu Qiu Bo Rong gathered together again in a tent. There was no longer the grand scene as before, and there was less of a barrier to guard against each other. The two found a corner and sat down, looking at the bonfire gathered in front of them.
The warriors on both sides, who were keeping warm, were filled with emotions.
"The ancestors would never have imagined that we would successfully resolve the feud that had been forged for hundreds of years in this way without any effort."
Emperor Daxin looked at the dark-eyed young man in front of her and murmured. She suddenly felt that if she had married and had children according to the arrangement of her late father many years ago, the son she would have given birth to would have been almost the same age as him.
The young He Han did not continue, he just played with a willow leaf-shaped flat iron piece in his hand in a daze - it was originally a gold danglu tied in front of Wu Chen's forehead, and the black iron was filled with gold.
As a pattern, the white deer is at the top, the wolf is at the bottom, and the sun, moon and stars are in the middle. It was specially made by Tuya after her wedding.
However, now, everyone related to this thing is no longer in this world. But the young man who continues to walk alone has only endless pain and bone-deep hatred in his heart.
"Have you ever noticed that the wind and snow suddenly weakened last night, and it seemed like someone was helping us secretly."
The young man suddenly spoke, and Lu Qiu Borong nodded immediately:
"That's right. The wind and snow seemed to have sentience and circled around us. But who can control the weather, and why does he want to help us?"
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Yan suddenly clenched the palm holding Dang Lu tightly, and the flesh on his cheeks moved up and down:
"It can only be that person!"
"I wonder who you are talking about?" Emperor Daxin asked again.
The young Hehan said solemnly: "It's Mr. Kun!"
When he mentioned this name at this time, his mind once again thought of the only time he had met the other party in the Yongyang Palace of Yujing. However, when he thought of it at this time, he still felt a biting chill creeping up his back. , making his hair stand on end.
Luqiu Borong suddenly became a little confused. She couldn't understand why the mysterious enemy who raised Chilang and tried to get rid of her at Suoyang Pass would help her at the critical moment of life and death.
The young man said it with certainty:
"It must be true. Apart from Mr. Kun, who turned the entire Dasheng and even the entire grassland into a pool of muddy water, who else in the world can have such a scheme and such a method? He is like a man waiting for an opportunity to move. A poisonous snake, and we are all his prey!”
"You mean - he saved us intentionally? Why? Since he has such divine power and a pack of galloping wolves, what's the benefit of leaving his enemies behind? It's better to let us If he fends for himself in the snowstorm last night, no one will stop him anymore."
Luqiu Borong couldn't help but frown. From her point of view, this was a wrong move that had no benefits at all, but would bring endless troubles.
However, Jiang Yan does not think so:
"You are all strategists who have exhausted all your agencies. It's impossible not to understand that the so-called plan is to use the method of sniping and closing to achieve the goal of moving a thousand pounds. The place where the power of the ancestors has always been hidden must be extremely dangerous. Then it will be extremely dangerous. Come down, the other party will probably use all means to make us have to act in accordance with his arrangements. Now we have become the pebbles in his hands to explore the way!"
The young He Han finally saw through Kun Jie's plan, which made the Emperor Daxin across from him take a breath.
While the two were talking, they heard an exclamation from outside the tent, followed by a heart-rending scream that quickly went away, as if someone had encountered something unexpected.
"What's going on outside the ledger?"
The two exchanged glances, and immediately ran out of the tent one after the other, asking in unison. However, they saw several pools of blood on the ground, which looked like ink splashed on white paper in the night. Nearby, there were even sporadic blood stains. Several pieces of armor and cloth stained with blood.
"Yes, it's Chilang!"
I don't know whether it was due to nervousness or the cold, but a Guan Ning military soldier in charge of the patrol responded with uncontrollable trembling. The knife he held tightly in his hands had actually been broken in the sheath.
"What I expected was indeed correct. The guy named Kun is near us now!"
Jiang Yan's expression changed, "How many wolves came? How many casualties were there?"
"There were only three or five wolves. They attempted to kill two people, but they took away two people."
A Red Flame Army member answered, his face as pale as a sheet.
The young He Han knew that 90% of the weapons had been destroyed in the previous confrontation between the two armies. Even if they were as brave as the soldiers and the Red Flame Army, they could not restrain themselves when facing the ferocious beasts driven by madmen. Will be afraid.
"Bodu, where is Bodu? Immediately call a few brave brothers and follow me to save people!"
The black-eyed boy did not hesitate for too long, and gave the order loudly. However, after shouting several times, Qianhu under his command did not come out of the tent.
"Among the two people who were snatched away by wolves, there may be the general you are looking for... It was he who saved me from the claws of those beasts and stabbed one of the wolves in the back with the iron rope at the end of the flagpole.
leg!"
An injured soldier staggered forward, crying.
"Since they are injured, those beasts probably won't be able to run very far now! Come immediately to two ten-man teams and come with me to rescue people!"
When Jiang Yan shouted, he saw more than a thousand red flame troops running out of each tent and arranging in front of him. Luqiu Borong saw this and couldn't help but be frightened by the well-trained skills of these prairie cavalry, and also because
We secretly admired their loyalty and bravery.
However, she reached out her hand and gently pressed He Han's wrist next to her:
"You just said personally that Mr. Kun will use all means to make us act according to his ideas. How do you know that Chilang's sneak attack is not a trap deliberately set by the other party?"
Jiang Yan turned around and looked into the other person's eyes. After a moment of silence, he spoke again:
"I don't know. But the missing people are my comrades who have been through life and death together. Their lives are just like my own!"
After that, the young man held up the long black-gold sword and led the crowd to chase after the bloodstains on the ice into the wind and snow. Luqiu Borong, who was left behind, looked at his retreating back, but did not order the troops to follow.
Instead, he put his hand into his arms and tightly grasped a shabby silk fan with blood stains on it:
"Fu Aiqing, please let me be selfish for the last time. After all, the ancient scrolls found in Yongyang Palace say that the power of the ancestors can even bring the dead back to life..."
On the vast ice field, General Yan, who led the Red Flame Army and the soldiers parted ways again, saw several shadows across the ice in the night from a distance.
But the light around him was too dim, and he couldn't tell whether those shadows were wolves or humans. The young man, who was eager to save people, raised his knife and boldly stepped forward, but at a glance, he was frightened. Because of those shadows
, but they are just a few pieces of residual limbs left after being torn and eaten by giant wolves.
Young and Han's hearts sank, only to find that Dao Bodu and the other soldier who was dragged away were already in trouble. Just as they were about to withdraw their troops, they heard bursts of high-pitched laughter coming from the depths of the empty ice field.
The laughter sounded several miles away, but it seemed particularly clear in the silent night. It was Bodu's voice! Jiang Yan immediately led the crowd to follow the sound, but he never imagined that what he saw before him was actually Bodu's voice.
Creepy.
Bodu was not eaten by the Chilang.
Now, he is holding half of the leg bones of his dead comrades in his hands, standing on the ice field, looking up to the sky and screaming. At his feet, three heads are lying upside down, with sharp stubbles on the leg bones piercing their throats.
of beast carcasses.
The grassland people were really brave. Bodu killed three giant beasts with one person, but only suffered some flesh wounds, which were not fatal. Jiang Yan immediately roared and called out the opponent's name.
Hearing someone's voice behind him, Bodu slowly turned around. Only then did the young Hehan notice that the armor and clothes on his body had been soaked with wolf blood. Drops of blood rolled down to his feet.
, spread out on the ice, soaking the land beneath Qianhu's feet.
"It's so cold..."
Bodu's whole body trembled violently, and his red armor rubbed together, making a strange creaking sound.
There was no cold wind blowing in the sky that could kill anyone in an instant, but the blood on Bodu's body solidified into ice at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a dark red crust on his body.
.Even on the edge of the armor, there are even slender ice strands hanging down.
"Hurry up and make a fire! Get the hot water bladder!"
Seeing this, Jiang Yan immediately ordered to the left and right, and he rushed forward to hold the opponent's arm. Unexpectedly, Qianhu on the opposite side shook his hand away hard, stepped back, and started to relieve it.
The armor on my body:
"Da Hehan, there is something weird in these wolf bloods, don't get involved in it!"
After hearing this, the black-eyed boy subconsciously looked at the iron-fingered hand that he had just touched. He saw that the human blood on his palm had formed countless white ice crystals in an instant.
He clenched his fists hard, and when he looked up again, he saw that Bo had removed all the blood-soaked armor from his body, and stood naked in the ice and snow.
However, even so, it was still too late. The wolf blood seemed to be alive and had penetrated under his skin early in the morning. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Bodu's body quickly lost its color and gradually turned into a corpse.
The blood all over his body was completely frozen as he spoke, and he stopped breathing in the blink of an eye!
At the same time, Jiang Yan also felt a stinging pain in his palm. He hurriedly lowered his head to remove the iron finger from his hand and threw it away. Fortunately, there was not much wolf blood on his hand and he was not too seriously injured.
hurt.
"Wherever you are hiding, get out of here!"
Jiang Yan roared angrily at the ice field under the night, and despite his anger, there was a sense of helpless desolation. However, in the void, no one responded at all.
I don’t know how long it took, but young He Han accidentally noticed that there seemed to be a hazy light moving under the ice not far in front of him. The light and shadow changed, making it blurry and difficult to distinguish. However, when he looked carefully, he found that
The alternating strong and weak light groups actually reflected the figures of many people running quickly underground!
The young man immediately looked in the direction of the figure in the light group, and then he noticed that just a few miles away underground, there was a huge city half buried under the ice. Even though it was buried deep under the ice sheet, that city
But the tip of the skyscraper pillar was still exposed on the ice, making the young man and the Red Flame Army under his command dumbfounded. They suddenly realized that it was the ancient city they had been searching for all along!
Before seeing this legendary city that had been frozen for thousands of years, the young Hehan had no way of judging whether the beasts that attacked the camp were lone wolves or scouts deliberately sent by the enemy to spy. However,
At this time, the young man had a vague feeling that perhaps it was Mr. Kun who deliberately used Chilang to lure him here. And his previous judgment was not wrong. The other party was planning to let him and his soldiers,
Become a meat bait to eliminate difficulties and eliminate dangers on the road leading to the ruined city buried under the ice!
However, before he could give the order to retreat, he heard a loud rumble in the ice beneath his feet, and then the ground shook violently. From under the cracks in the cracked ice, a strange blue-purple flame rose into the sky.
It rose up and shot out of the ice more than ten feet high, lighting up the night sky and even the faces of everyone on the ice.